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To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.
— Aristophanes
There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.
— Aristophanes
Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh?
— Aristophanes
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
— Aristophanes
There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
— Harold Bloom
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[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.
— Aristophanes
Under every stone lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.
— Aristophanes
An actor should refine public taste.
— Aristophanes
Evil events from evil causes spring.
— Aristophanes
I was the first to make it understoodthat reason could undermine the just premises of the good. — Aristophanes
Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
Even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me.
— Aristophanes
You cannot make a crab walk straight.
— Aristophanes
A slave is but half a man.
— Aristophanes
The old are in a second childhood.
— Aristophanes
A truce to idle phrases!
— Aristophanes
I saw a cavalry captain buy vegetable soup on horseback. He carried the whole mess home in his helmet.
— Aristophanes
I must think of something foolproof for a fool.
— Aristophanes
Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
— Aristophanes
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
— Aristophanes
Shrines! Shrines! Surely you don't believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?
— Aristophanes
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
— Aristophanes
Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent,More in fact than from our friends. — Aristophanes
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
— Aristophanes
I would treat her like an egg, the shell of which we remove before eating it; I would take off her mask and then kiss her pretty face.
— Aristophanes
Old age is but a second childhood.
— Aristophanes
Open your mind before your mouth
— Aristophanes
By words the mind is winged.
— Aristophanes
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
— Aristophanes
Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself.
— Aristophanes
There's no art where there's no fee.
— Aristophanes
Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull?
— Aristophanes
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
— Aristophanes
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
— Aristophanes
Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em.
— Aristophanes
When men drink wine they are rich, they are busy, they push lawsuits, they are happy, they are friends.
— Aristophanes
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever
— Aristophanes
Meton (astronomer in 5th century BC): With the straight ruler I set to work To make the circle four-cornered .
— Aristophanes
A fox is subtlety itself.
— Aristophanes
Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.
— Aristophanes
You will never make the crab walk straight.
— Aristophanes
Under every rock lurks a politician.
— Aristophanes
Wealththe most excellent of all gods. — Aristophanes
If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
— Aristophanes
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
— Aristophanes
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
— Aristophanes
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
Politics, these days, is no occupationfor an educated man, a man of character.
Ignorance and total lousiness are better. — Aristophanes
It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.
— Stephen Leacock
Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much!
— Aristophanes
Comedy too can sometimes discern what is right.
— Aristophanes
Comedy is allied to justice.
— Aristophanes
The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.
— Aristophanes
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
— Aristophanes
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
— Aristophanes
Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.
— Aristophanes
What can you answer? Now be careful, don't arouse my spite, Or with my slipper I'll take you napping,faces slapping
Left and right. — Aristophanes
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
— Aristophanes
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
— Aristophanes
High thoughts must have high language.
— Aristophanes
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
— Aristophanes
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
— Aristophanes
Do not take a blind guide.
— Aristophanes
Today things are better than yesterday.
— Aristophanes
Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.
— Aristophanes
need a poet who can really write. Nowadays it seems like 'many are gone, and those that live are bad'.12
— Aristophanes
It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
— Aristophanes
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along.
— Aristophanes
The love of wine is a good man's failing.
— Aristophanes
How can I study from below, that which is above?
— Aristophanes
Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.
— Aristophanes
Old age is second childhood.
— Aristophanes
An ancient tradition declares that every idiot blunder we pass into law will sooner or later redound to Athens' profit.
— Aristophanes
